Scientist.com Expands Research Marketplace for US National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Scientist.com, the world's largest marketplace for outsourced scientific
services, today announced the launch of the NIH Collaborative Research
Exchange (CREx). Created in partnership with the NIH Intramural Research
Program (IRP), and originally designed by the Center for Cancer
Research of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), CREx enables NIH IRP
researchers in Maryland, North Carolina and Montana to easily access
shared scientific resources and initiate internal and external research
collaborations.

“The NIH IRP is one of the largest biomedical research institutions on
Earth,” said Sherman Tang, Scientist.com’s NIH Site Director. “With
CREx, NIH IRP scientists now have easy access to innovative tools and
technologies offered by hundreds of internal NIH groups and by thousands
of external contract research organizations (CROs). CREx is an
easy-to-use online tool that promotes sharing of internal resources,
simplifies research collaborations and enables access to the latest
cutting-edge technologies.”

The NIH IRP has many state-of-the-art core facilities with excess
capacity that could be shared among investigators but without a central
online catalog it's been challenging for researchers to access them. The
expansion of CREx connects IRP researchers with innovative research
tools, creates access to shared scientific resources throughout the NIH
and promotes collaborations among researchers.

CREx is now available to researchers at 20 institutes and centers within
the NIH, including the NCI, National Human Genome Research Institute
(NHGRI), National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institute
of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), National Institute of
Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Institute
of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), National Institute of
Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) and the NIH Clinical Center.

About Scientist.com

Scientist.com is the world's largest scientific services marketplace.
The marketplace simplifies research sourcing, saves time and money, and
provides access to innovative tools and technologies - while maintaining
full compliance with an organization’s procurement policies.
Scientist.com currently operates private marketplaces for 13 of the top
25 pharmaceutical companies and the US National Institutes of Health
(NIH). Other clients include hundreds of small pharmaceutical companies,
government organizations, research universities, biotechnology
companies, regional bioclusters and academic labs. Visit scientist.com
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